Football Flyboy

Author : Lisa Reinicke
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780999363751

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Football Flyboy by Lisa Reinicke Pdf

Does a good man’s life end at his death? The answer for daughter Lisa Reinicke was, “No.” Her father was known by many names: Buster, Bill, Billy, Dad, and the Football Flyboy. His deeds, no matter how small, should be passed down to family, friends, and anyone looking for inspiration, and life-lessons from one who worked, lived and part of the Greatest Generation. The Football Flyboy was young, newlywed and a pilot in WWII. He was a good man. One weekend morning, she determined that his spirit should not stay silent just because his mouth could no longer speak words. “I open my dad’s old air force footlocker - still solid, battleship grey, weathered, and a little rough from travel and age. His name is in white lettering on the front: First Lt William R Cannon.”​ What she discovered were yellowed envelopes bound in twine - hundreds of them - that her father had written to her mother. Letters written daily during the last year of WWII and received by his bride. Her daily letters disappeared - only three times during the year, did the “mailman” catch up with him and teased with just a few of the hundreds. “Before reaching inside, there was a feeling of the hands of time grabbing onto my heart, knowing that this was such a huge part of not only his life but my mom’s as well.” Meet Bill “Buster” Cannon, the Football Flyboy ... a good man with a good life who made a difference.

Author : Lisa Reinicke
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780999363782

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Wilhelmina's Wish by Lisa Reinicke Pdf

Wilhelmina had one wish—she wished she didn't look like this. Fly along with Wilhelmina, a fairy with a unique uni-brow. She wants to change the way she looks, but it's not that easy. In this meaningful poetic story, your child will learn that one of the most important things in life is to be grateful with what you've got.

Author : James H. Hallas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811771320

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Fly Boy Heroes by James H. Hallas Pdf

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive bombers and flying boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others sacrificed themselves for their friends or risked everything for complete strangers. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II.

Author : Lisa Reinicke
Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780999763919

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Buckle Up for Business Success by Lisa Reinicke Pdf

“Buckle Up captures the personal commitment, dedication, and investment required to bring a new company to life and then success thereafter.” —Mike Jaroc, Senior Executive, Advisor and Author of Extraordinary Lessons From An Ordinary Life "Lisa knows how to win, and she has a gift for helping us all overcome the flat tires and bent fenders of everyday life!" —Paul Harraka, NASCAR driver/Anodize Capital Partners Entrepreneur "A powerful and inspirational book on what business ownership is truly like. Full of wisdom, hard-earned truths and lessons learned... A must-read." —Rick Wright, International Executive Coach Long hours, exhaustion, and family dynamics play a big part in your company. After inventing the concept of Automotive Warranty Network and venturing out on a new horizon from the basement of our home, I quickly realized that growing the business and our family simultaneously was a juggling act. This is a story of how a young girl with no education formed a 22-million-dollar enterprise and learned many lessons along the way. Learning how to be in the business of being in business is hard to do when the business needs you to do the work while the company grows. But if I can do this, you can too. Let me share the successes and failures and have a laugh or two along the way. Owning your own business is a wild ride, but it can be a fun and fruitful adventure.

Author : Lisa Reinicke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0999363743

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Football Flyboy: First Lt. Bill Cannon, Piloting More Than His Own Aircraft by Lisa Reinicke Pdf

Buster, a small-town football hero, turns pilot during WW2, with an ego to match both titles. His attitude grows as gets outside his comfort zone piloting C-47 troop and cargo carriers from Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, France, Cairo, China, Japan, and thePhilippines. His letters are a one-way communication showing his journey. His mail could never catch up with him which he firmly stated, "pissed him off," and left him only able to write what wason his mind every day with no news from home. He finds a turning point in his life that changes his views on humanity that humble him as he grows into manhood. His camera documents the devastation he see's that humble his spirit. Through his letters home we learn the family dynamics that made him into a man of honor and compassion. Lonely for home he remains true to his high school sweetheart he married prior to leaving on his tour of duty. Learning his imperfections he develops strength and courage throughout his life determined to be a man that will do what it takes to be a decent respectable gentleman. His death is met with no regrets, a silent hero, and secret good deeds.The author bounces back between letters, his family, and his end times to build his character in three demintions. From the babywith no-name that dethroned his sister, Ruby Lee, to hot shot fly boy, husband, father, corporate big-wig, and finally "Old Dad" that makes his story a statement of what it takes to be a good man.

Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759508321

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Flyboys by James Bradley Pdf

The classic New York Times bestselling story of heroism and sacrifice--by the author of Flags of Our Fathers, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mirage. This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. What happened to the other eight remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the shocking truth, and not even the families of the airmen were informed of what happened to their sons. Their fate remained a mystery--until now. FLYBOYS is a tale of courage and daring, of war and death, of men and hope. It will make you proud and it will break your heart.

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143180272

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Fly Boy by Eric Walters Pdf

Robbie's father is a spitfire pilot who was shot down during World War II and is now a POW. At only seventeen, Robbie lies about his identity to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force under the guise of going to a boarding school so that his mother doesn't find out. He starts training in Brandon, Manitoba, but after acing all his classes, he's dealt a disappointing blow when he's assigned to be a navigator on a Lancaster. He wanted to be a pilot, just like his father, but the commanders of the air force have other ideas. Robbie is soon on his way to England, where he completes his training on missions bombing German targets in enemy territory. It is during one of these missions that his Lancaster is fired upon and the pilot and many of the crew are shot. It's up to Robbie and his limited piloting experience to save the crew...and himself.

Author : Vivian Leiber
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373088221

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Casey's Flyboy by Vivian Leiber Pdf

Author : Tom Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 178112535X

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Flyboy (Wings #1) by Tom Palmer Pdf

First in the Wings trilogy. Jatinder seems to be living his dream - he's training for his team's youth squad, and his host parents Steve and Esther are really great. But the other kids are always on the alert for anything that makes a player different, and Jatinder is definitely that. Steve reckons it's good to be different - look at his own hero, Hardit Singh Malik. That night Jatinder wakes up in a seriously surprising situation - flying Hardit's WWI fighter plane into enemy airspace.

Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101635728

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Why Football Matters by Mark Edmundson Pdf

Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. Football inspires confidence and direction. But football instills cockiness, a false sense of superiority. The athlete is a noble figure with a proud lineage. The jock is America at its worst. When Mark Edmundson’s son began to play organized football, and proved to be very good at it, Edmundson had to come to terms with just what he thought about the game. Doing so took him back to his own childhood, when as a shy, soft boy growing up in a blue-collar Boston suburb in the sixties, he went out for the high school football team. Why Football Matters is the story of what happened to Edmundson when he tried to make himself into a football player. What does it mean to be a football player? At first Edmundson was hapless on the field. He was an inept player and a bad teammate. But over time, he got over his fears and he got tougher. He learned to be a better player and came to feel a part of the team, during games but also on all sorts of escapades, not all of them savory. By playing football, Edmundson became what he and his father hoped he’d be, a tougher, stronger young man, better prepared for life. But is football-instilled toughness always a good thing? Do the character, courage, and loyalty football instills have a dark side? Football, Edmundson found, can be full of bounties. But it can also lead you into brutality and thoughtlessness. So how do you get what’s best from the game and leave the worst behind? Why Football Matters is moving, funny, vivid, and filled with the authentic anxiety and exhilaration of youth. Edmundson doesn’t regret playing football for a minute, and cherishes the experience. His triumph is to be able to see it in full, as something to celebrate, but also something to handle with care. For anyone who has ever played on a football team, is the parent of a player, or simply is reflective about its outsized influence on America, Why Football Matters is both a mirror and a lamp.

Author : Michel Paradis
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501104718

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Last Mission to Tokyo by Michel Paradis Pdf

“Superb...[Paradis] writes history with ease and authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “[An] engrossing procedural...Richly researched.” —The New York Times Book Review A thrilling narrative that introduces a key but underreported moment in World War II: The Doolitte Raids and the international war crimes trial in 1945 that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history. In 1942, freshly humiliated from the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States was in search of a plan. President Roosevelt, determined to show the world that our nation would not be intimidated or defeated by enemy powers, he demanded recommendations for a show of strength. Jimmy Doolittle, a stunt pilot with a doctorate from MIT, came forward, and led eighty young men, gathered together from the far-flung corners of Depression-era America, on a seemingly impossible mission across the Pacific. Sixteen planes in all, they only had enough fuel for a one-way trip. Together, the Raiders, as they were called, did what no one had successfully done for more than a thousand years. They struck the mainland of Japan and permanently turned the tide of the war in the Pacific. Almost immediately, The Doolittle Raid captured the public imagination, and has remained a seminal moment in World War II history, but the heroism and bravery of the mission is only half the story. In Last Mission to Tokyo, Michel Paradis reveals the dramatic aftermath of the mission, which involved two lost crews captured, tried, and tortured at the hands of the Japanese, a dramatic rescue of the survivors in the last weeks of World War II, and an international manhunt and trial led by two dynamic and opposing young lawyers—in which both the United States and Japan accused the other of war crimes—that would change the face of our legal and military history. Perfect for fans of Lucky 666 and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, Last Mission to Tokyo is a thrilling war story-meets-courtroom-drama that explores a key moment in World War II.

Author : Larry L. King
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573691371

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The Night Hank Williams Died by Larry L. King Pdf

Author : Bob Boyles,Paul Guido
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602393311

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2008-2009 by Bob Boyles,Paul Guido Pdf

The result of 15 years of exhaustive research, this work is the definitive statistical and factual reference for everything related to college football in the past 50 years.

Author : Bob Boyles,Paul Guido
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602396779

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The USA TODAY College Football Encyclopedia 2009-2010 by Bob Boyles,Paul Guido Pdf

The most comprehensive resource on college football ever published.

Author : David VanDyke,Ryan King
Publisher : Reaper Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626261440

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Apocalypse Austin by David VanDyke,Ryan King Pdf

BOOK FOUR of the Plague Wars series. When oppression by the Unionist-dominated federal government becomes intolerable, the Republic of Texas secedes from the United States. As the Unionists respond with immediate violence, Daniel Markis and Spooky Nguyen send Reaper and Skull on missions to help the fledgling nation survive in the face of overwhelming odds. Can they win through to establish a haven for Edens on North American soil? Or shall the world edge further into darkness? Battles rage in the air, on the ground and in the shadows in this apocalyptic technothriller, book 4 of the Plague Wars series. The books in the Plague Wars series: Plague Wars: Decade One - The Eden Plague - Reaper's Run - Skull's Shadows - Eden's Exodus - Apocalypse Austin - Nearest Night Plague Wars: Alien Invasion - The Demon Plagues - The Reaper Plague - The Orion Plague - Cyborg Strike - Comes the Destroyer - Forge and Steel Plague Wars: Stellar Conquest - First Conquest - Desolator: Conquest - Tactics of Conquest - Conquest of Earth - Conquest and Empire Ryan King's Land of Tomorrow series: - Glimmer of Hope - Children of Wrath - Paths of Righteousness Keywords: Military Thrillers fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Genetic Engineering fiction genes, First Contact war, military science fiction, mystery thriller & suspense action fiction, technothriller techno thriller, Texas, secession, civil war, military series, apocalyptic series, kidnapping, EMP, martial law